Banking on Chinese prisons

I think I am warming to the idea of being owned by China and toiling beneath our future Chinese overlords.

I mean how bad can it be to live in a society where prisoners are forced to play World of Warcraft and other online games by their prison guards?

This story reports how Chinese prisoners were made to “farm gold” in game so the prison guards could then sell that gold to other gamers for real world money.

The story notes how the prisoners/gamers would be beaten with plastic pipes if they did not meet their daily gaming gold quota. Yet somehow I think that if a Big Red and some spicy chicharrones were thrown in, I could take a beating or two.

Anyway, apparently outside the prison system many Chinese have part-time jobs farming gold.